Oooh sometimes in my dairy-free, wheat-free – mostly sugar-free life – I allow myself a wee treat or two. This week I found two ‘naughty’ items at my local organic grocer that sparked my imagination – a Halloween Hot Chocolate Recipe!

First, presto-ready coconut whipped cream in a can – at the push of a nozzle!:
coconut whipped cream hot chocolate recipe
Secondly, natural pumpkin-spice marshmallows:
pumpkin marshmallow hot chocolate recipe

So I decided to make this scrumptious Halloween Hot Chocolate:

hot chocolate recipe

 

Halloween Hot Chocolate Recipe – Dairy-Free, Reduced Sugar

Heat a mug’s worth of your choice of almond, coconut, cashew, hemp milk etc. in a small saucepan

Whisk in about a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder:

cacao powder

 

Then sweeten with a tiny spoonful of KAL Stevia:

stevia

 

And if I want to mask the stevia taste, I add about this much non-GMO Xylitol:

xylitol

Drop a few marshmallows in the mug (to support the whipped coconut cream):

hot chocolate

Lastly, top with the whip cream, some shaved chocolate and a few more marshmallows:

hot chocolate

And YES. This really does taste as good as it looks!

The marshmallows and the coconut whipped cream both contain sugar, but by using stevia/xylitol to sweeten the hot chocolate, we do avoid a considerable amount (versus a ‘normal’ hot chocolate).